Dossier No. 01 · Ideology — conviction
The Gouzenko Affair
The clerk who broke the atomic silence
classifiedIn September 1945, Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko defected in Ottawa with 109 GRU documents, exposing the USSR's atomic espionage against its own allies. His betrayal, an ideological one, opened the Cold War of intelligence.
On the ground
- Ottawa
- Camp X, Whitby